William Howard

Head of International

Will is a partner in the Corporate M&A and ECM Group and head of the firm's International Board. Will trained at Travers Smith and became a partner in 2012.

Will has broad corporate experience and his practice is based on UK and international M&A work. He specialises in cross-border M&A, private equity, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, general advisory and early-stage and development capital work.

His clients include institutional investors, UK and overseas quoted and private companies and management teams. Will speaks fluent French.

Selected Deals

Equisoft Inc. on the sale of Altus Consulting, its UK insurance, investments and financial services advisory services business.

RPM International on its acquisition of Star Brands Group, the parent company of the Pink Stuff.

Gatekeeper on strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners.

Saint-Gobain on the UK aspects of the acquisition of Glass Service a.s.

Stellantis N.V. on the UK aspects of its group reorganisation.

Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions, on its acquisition of Office and Dragons.

AJ Capital Partners on the acquisitions of several hotels in the UK including the Randolph (Oxford), Rusacks (St Andrews) and Slieve Donard (Royal County Down).

Questel SAS on its acquisition of Equinox, a leading IP management provider.

JF Hillebrand, a global transport and logistics provider, on its acquisition of Braid, a leader in bulk liquids logistics.

Paprec on the UK aspects of its acquisition of the Dalkia Wastenergy Group.

GrowUp Farms, a vertical farming operator, on debt and equity financing arrangements with Generate Capital.

Wise Equity on the UK aspects of its majority investment in Onetag, a programmatic advertising company.

SNCF on the acquisition of international ticket booking platform Loco2 prior to its rebrand as Rail Europe.

Dassault Systemes on the acquisition of the Opera business from Cobham plc.

BNP Paribas on the UK aspects of its joint venture acquisition of 3Step IT.

Altus Group on the sale of its property tax business to Ryan, LLC.

LVMH and Groupe Arnault in connection with the formation of L Catterton.

The Agrial Group on several acquisitions within the food and beverage sector, including Axgro, MyFresh and Aston Manor, the UK's largest independent cider producer.

Looping Group on its acquisition of the West Midland Safari Park and the Drayton Manor Resort.

Staci SAS, an investee company of Ardian, on its acquisition of Michael Davies & Associates Limited from Bunzl plc.

Orange on the acquisition of Sun Communications, the leading Moldovan Pay TV provider.

Sportlight, a sports technology start-up, on various equity fundraisings.

Gerflor, the European flooring leader, on acquisitions in the UK, Australia, Italy, Turkey, Croatia, Germa